Word: prod
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...wake up in a cold, dank cell, tied to a chair. A hot light is shining in my face, blinding me, scoring me. "He's awake," someone snickers, "Who's got the cattle prod...
Enough of this crap," one growls, testing the period against the wall, "Why testing the prod against the wall, "Why haven't you done ant thing here...
...those who give up, there is the cattle prod...
...tested and challenged those around him, often sounding preachy, sometimes downright rude when he interrupted in mid-sentence, pushing them to be better. "By now," remembers Ueberroth, "we felt the reputation of the country was at stake. It was frightening." Often he would stroll through the hangar, sure to prod with questions, and more questions: the exact location of Rwanda or the spelling of the names of International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch and Director Monique Berlioux. "Peter is demanding and self- demanding," says Agnes Mura, a top staffer. "That makes you try as hard...
...published Stories for Children, a collection of 36 works for the young, dating back to Zlateh the Goat in 1966. Without the original illustrations, his fictions stand revealed as something more than mere bedtime stories. Many are informed by Freudian insights; tale after tale demonstrates a strong desire to prod the audience-and in some small way retard or push forward the wheels of history...